Issue Articles
Love and Passion: Cuban Trumpeter Arturo Sandoval’s Musical Imagination
ARTURO SANDOVAL: SATURDAY, APRIL 30—ZATARAIN’S WWOZ JAZZ TENT, 5:35 P.M. There are precious few musicians in the world as fully realized as Cuban-born trumpeter Arturo Sandoval. His formidable improvisational […]
Bobby Womack Writes the Songs the Whole World Sings
In 1963, Bobby Dwayne Womack was just 19 when he wrote “It’s All Over Now”—inspired by his uncle’s woman troubles—for he and his brothers’ band, The Valentinos. Although the song […]
Bill Summers: Jazz Fest Focus
Bill Summers’ place in the jazz firmament was set the moment he tooted on a beer bottle tuned to C in the introduction to Herbie Hancock’s “Watermelon Man” in 1973. […]
Bryan Lee, My Lady Don’t Love My Lady (Justin Time)
Bryan Lee might have come into this world a cheesehead up in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, but as soon as he heard those great, long-distance blues radio shows as a little […]
Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend
Although France may have only produced two jazz musicians of real genius, those two musicians alone give France pretty respectable bragging rights: Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt. Their quintet recordings […]
Fest Focus: Mavis Staples
Imagine a young Bob Dylan and an equally young Mavis Staples—married. It could have happened, according to Mavis. She recently told the story via telephone from her Chicago condo that faces cold Lake Michigan.
Stacey Kent, Dreamsville (Candid/Artists Only! Records)
Stacey Kent: Dreamsville (Candid/Artists Only! Records)
